Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...years under President Gifford the Bell System's operating revenues went from $655 million up to $2.2 billion, its installed telephones from 11.2 million to 28.5 million. A pioneer in labor relations, Gifford campaigned to make all employees stockholders (TIME, Jan. 2). Last week, with 45 A.T. & T. years behind him, Board Chairman Gifford retired on a $95,000 annual pension. A.T. & T. directors, who revived the post of board chairman two years ago for Gifford, do not plan to replace him. They will let Leroy A. Wilson run the show from the president's office...
Last week, while. Manhattan moviegoers waited in line to see the picture, Maggiorani was in an unheated flat near Rome, playing the role of the buffeted worker all over again. But this time it was more realistic than even realist De Sica could make...
...fair to fire them and keep you." So Maggiorani was fired. "Never mind," said Giuseppina cheerfully. "Since your role in The Bicycle Thief you have actually become Antonio. You feel downtrodden, and now your bicycle has been stolen. We will .merely tell De Sica you want to make another picture...
...thought earnestly and long about the tincture of guilt that has seeped into the stream of consciousness of modern man and created a field day for the psychoanalysts. Like his father, the late great H. G. Wells,* he has a considerable talent for creating the geography of a make-believe world to suit his fictional purpose...
Arguing against the Soviet proposal, U.S. delegates point out that use of the veto would make the control system meaningless, since one of the Big Five could halt punishment of its own violation. Britain, speaking for the Commission majority, states that "periodic" inspection would mean no control at all: a country could easily cover up a violation before the UN inspectors made their visit...